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IAPR TC-11 Newsletter
July 2013
http://www.iapr-tc11.org
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* Message from the Editor
* Dates 'n' Deadlines
- DRR 2014, San Francisco, USA August 2 (extended!)
* New and Recently Published Datasets
* Announcement
- TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting during ICDAR 2013
* Call for Dataset Submissions
* Call for Contributions
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========== Message from the Editor =========================================
Welcome to the July edition of our TC-11 newsletter. This edition brings
good news to potential DRR 2014 authors: The deadline for submitting
manuscripts has been extended to August 2. Furthermore, you will find below
the announcement of the TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting that will be held
during ICDAR 2013. By tradition, the location for ICDAR 2017 will be
determined during this meeting by the ICDAR audience based on the bids
presented.
Gernot A. Fink, IAPR-TC11 Newsletter Editor
Gernot.Fink@udo.edu
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========== Dates 'n' Deadlines =============================================
Event/Location/Web: Event Date: Deadline (paper submission):
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* DRR 2014, San Francisco, USA February 4-6 2014 August 2 (ext.!)
(http://drr2014.irisa.fr)
* DAS 2014, Tours, France April 7-10 2014 September 30
(http://das2014.univ-tours.fr/)
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========== New and Recently Published: TC-11 Datasets ======================
Name/Source of Dataset: Main Purpose: Published:
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LRDE DBD Document Binarization Dataset (LRDE DBD) 05/2013
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/LRDE_Document_Binarization_Dataset_(LRDE_DBD)
PHIBD 2012 Persian Heritage Image Binarization Dataset 05/2013
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Persian_Heritage_Image_Binarization_Dataset_(PHIBD_2012)
For a list of all datasets available visit:
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets_List
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========== TC 10 and TC 11 joint meeting during ICDAR 2013 =================
It is our pleasure to announce the organization of the joint meeting between
TC10 and TC 11 during the next session of ICDAR Conference
(http://www.icdar2013.org), which will be held in one month in Washington.
This joint meeting will be held on Monday, 26th August 2013 from 5:50PM till
7:00PM. The room is to be determined and will be announced at the conference.
The agenda of this meeting will be the following :
17:50 - 17:55 welcome message from TC 10 and TC 11 chairs :
Jean-Marc Ogier and Koichi Kise
17:55 - 18:05 ICDAR2015 report (10 min) : Adel Alimi
18:05 - 18:15 DAS2014 report (10 min) : Jean-Yves Ramel, Marcus Liwicki
18:15 - 18:25 ICFHR2014 report (10 min) :
Basilis Gatos, Vassilis Katsouros, and Ioannis Pratikakis
18:25 - 18:35 ICDAR2017 Bid (10 min) : Koichi Kise
18:35 - 18:45 TC10 report (10 min) : Jean-Marc Ogier & TC 10 management team
18:45 - 18:55 TC11 report (10 min) : Koichi Kise & TC 11 management team
18:55 - 19:00 closing
We would like to invite you to consult TC 10 and TC 11 websites, especially in
order to analyze ICDAR 2017 bid.
Looking forward to meeting you four this important event for our community,
Best regards
Jean-Marc Ogier (TC 10 Chair) and Koichi Kise (TC 11 Chair)
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========== Call for Dataset Submissions ====================================
We would like to remind you that the TC10 and TC11 welcome contributions of
new datasets or other resources related to the community. We would like to
particularly encourage authors of articles that introduce new datasets,
software or other material to submit such material to TC11 for hosting.
Please check the TC11 site on information about how to submit datasets for
archiving (
http://www.iapr-tc11.org/mediawiki/index.php/Datasets) also feel free to
contact Marcus Liwicki, the TC11 dataset curator, for any doubts you
might have on the process.
Marcus Liwicki, TC-11 Dataset Curator
liwicki@dfki.uni-kl.de
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========== Call for Contributions ==========================================
This newsletter needs your support in order to provide useful information
to the TC11 community. Therefore, please contribute relevant news by sending
a short notice to the newsletter editor Gernot A. Fink .
Such news could be the obvious announcements of conferences and workshops,
job opportunities, reports on past conferences, book reviews, or anything
that might be of interest to a wider audience involved in the construction of
reading systems.
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